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Drill bits and Dynamite Part Four

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Believe it or don't, but when I finally finished that job for the wealthy customer, and the balance owing was a tad over 10,000 bucks, he paid without fuss or phone calls within a week. So a happy ending for that one after all.  I started to prep for the move to work on the Sea to Sky Job immediately. I had to tell customers and digging contractors that it was all over and to start calling the other guy from now on. I would say that my wife was less than impressed with me working away from home at this point. It's not far as the crow flies, but we would be separated by the Langdale/Horseshoe Bay ferry ride. Kiewit set me up with an apartment in North Vancouver, only a few minutes drive to the project. I went home on weekends and during the week sometimes if it was at all possible  A brief side tour.  How did it come to be that the monster company Peter Kiewit Sons ended up making that phone call? Well let's go back a bit. I was working on a subdivision job on Gambier I...

The Mechanics Special....Dedicated Photos From the Sea to Sky Job

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Photos specially selected for the Mechanics Hub group, S2S mechanics....and other gearheads and lever pullers. Covers Segment 3 to Seg 1....years 2006 to 2008 Cut 10  Segment 1...looking North Segment 1... Servicing the rock crusher Segment 1, Cut 4 area Close up..... Segment 1, Cut 4 Cut 10/11 Segment 1 Cut 10...  BC Ferry coming into Horseshoe Bay Terminal, Bowen Island in the background Early days of Cut 5, Seg 1 North end of Cut 10, Seg 1 Seg 1 shop at Westport Pit, West Vancouver Seg 1 shop Segment one shop and offices Concrete batch plant....Seg 2? I know what you're thinking...how did he drive off the road here???? Doodson's Corner North end of Doodson's Corner South end of Doodson's Corner Brunswick pit, Seg 2 offices Stretch of new road in the Seg 2/3 area Brunswick Pit offices Brunswick Pit Darrell Bay/Shannon Falls Shannon Falls shop Shannon Falls shop Seg 1, ...